5 What will you do on the day of appointed festival,on the day of the Lord’s festival?
6 Even if they escape destruction,Egypt will gather them,Memphis will bury them.Briars will possess their precious things of silver;thorns will be in their tents.
7 The days of punishment have come;the days of judgment have arrived;Israel cries,"The prophet is a fool,the spiritual man is mad!"Because of your great wickedness,your rejection of me is great.
8 The prophet is God’s watchmanlooking over Ephraim,yet a hunter’s trap is set, covering all his ways,and rejection is in his God’s house.
9 They have corrupted themselves terriblyas in the days of Gibeah;he will remember their wickedness;he will punish their sins.
10 Like grapes in the wilderness,I found Israel.In its first season,like the first fruit on the fig tree,I saw your ancestors.But they came to Baal-peor,and worshipped a thing of shame;they became detestable like the thing they loved.
11 Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird—no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!